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HeavenlyPossum on Nostr: Capitalism is unique among exploitive economic systems in that its exploitation is ...

Capitalism is unique among exploitive economic systems in that its exploitation is purely economic.

In most other exploitive systems, exploitation is extra-economic. This means that exploiters possess some legal rights to take directly from their subordinates through the direct threat of violence. Enslavers might possess the legal right to torture of murder enslaved people to force them to labor; feudal lords might possess the right to demand rents, labor service, and fees directly from their tenants.

But capitalists possess no formal, legal right to directly threaten their subordinates in order to exploit them. Instead, capitalists use purely a economic means, and that is *sabotage*.

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